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===[[Black Light Friends Like These by Laura SolomonSarah Alderson]]===
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Jim is a university student andLife in London isn’t always glam, as the saying goes, he hasn't got his troubles to seek. His father committed suicide when he was especially if you’re young and somehow he's never really managed underpaid. For Lizzie it’s all a bit of a balancing act. She has a nice home but it technically belongs to connect with his stepher room-fathermate’s parents. His younger brother would be kindly described as having learning difficulties: if you were being honest you'd just say that he was very difficultShe works in the entertainment industry, but Jim does his best with and for himher job itself is probably not one you’d covet. Jim's in love with a womanShe doesn’t have much spare time, but she finds him repulsive and you that’s because she’s been working through some self-improvement. If they could only see her now. And, well, actually, they can understand why: the looks, the attitude, the (lack of) conversational ability and the clothing all leave although there’s a lot less of her to be desiredsee than there once was. Despite all that's he's not about to sit back But yes, she doesn’t really have much time for the past and allow his life to drift: he's actually writing ''two'' novels and he reads excerpts the people from these to his friends in the pubit. [[Black Light Friends Like These by Laura SolomonSarah Alderson|Full Review]]
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===[[Redemptor Domus Malice in Malmo: (Inspector Anita Sundstrom) by Gamelyn ChaseTorquil MacLeod]]===
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A young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on It was embarrassing when a leading Malmo business man was kidnapped, particularly as the police didn't know anything about it until the scenic North Wales coastman was discovered afterwards, sent far from his family tied to a park bench in the Far Easta cemetery. As He was coy about how much ransom was paid, but it was sufficient that he'd felt the boy travels to pain of the schooldigital transfers. That would have been bad enough, but a family tragedy causes second businessman was snatched soon afterwards and the pressure on Inspector Anita Sundström and her colleagues was to find the boy businessman ''and'' to arrive at capture the school a vulnerable orphan, with kidnappers before they took anyone else. Worse was to come though when an uncertain futureinvestigative journalist was found murdered in his flat. Plunged into a school full Was one of danger and betrayal, his victims the boy is seen as a trophy by friends and enemies alike. With them locked into their scheming and plottingmurderer, or was it comes to the boy to attempt someone he was about to clean up the pit of filth that the school has become. expose? [[Redemptor Domus Malice in Malmo: (Inspector Anita Sundstrom) by Gamelyn ChaseTorquil MacLeod|Full Review]]
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===[[The Long Path To Wisdom Vera Magpie by Jan-Philipp SendkerLaura Solomon]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
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On my travels around As an opening line that must take some beating, but Vera's telling us the worldtruth. The first two husbands, I Gary and Harry were abusive, but Larry was a treasure, a keeper, and it's difficult to understand why Vera would have a tendency killed him, particularly when she was likely to end up get found out very quickly and now she's in any bookshop that prison with a mandatory life sentence. Her only friend is selling English-language booksShirley, and while I buy as many second-hand escapist tales as the next persona lesbian, what Ibut Vera'm really looking for is the s not one to let herself be a victim. She'locals not keen on having a sexual relationship with Shirley (she wouldn' – t risk the cookbook maybe, security of her life in prison for the maps definitelysake of a fling), but above all: the folk tales. If I ever get to Burma, I wonshe is keen on getting an education and she't need to hunt, I can read before I gos studying for a degree in English Literature. [[The Long Path To Wisdom Vera Magpie by Jan-Philipp SendkerLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Pebble (Strong Winds series) The Whisperer by Julia JonesKarin Fossum]]===
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Liam isnWhen we first meet Ragna we can't understand what's going on. She'quites talking to Inspector Konrad Sejer and it's obvious that she' the youngest s being held in custody because of a large family: he doesn't have the distinction of being the baby anymore and he doesn't have the ''heft'' of his older brothers and sisters. Hecrime which she admits she's rather like one of the pebbles on a large shingle beach: part of the mass but easily overlooked as an individualcommitted. So when he starts having problems with his sight no one really takes any notice. He doesn't want to bother his mother Only, as shewe hear about Greta's heavily involved in the Luminal Festival and when he asked his elder step-sister, Anna, if life it seems that she'll take him for an eye test, she puts him offs more sinned against than sinning. In fairness After a botched operation on her vocal chords shecan's got important exams t speak above a whisper and Liamto add insult to injury she's convinced that itbeen left with a horrible scar across her throat. She's just done her best to make a case go of getting spectacles, but Liam's eyes are changing her life though: she enjoys her work in a rather strange wayshop and has learned ways of coping with the difficulties of communicating with people. [[Pebble (Strong Winds series) The Whisperer by Julia JonesKarin Fossum|Full Review]]
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===[[And So Many Doors It Begins by Oakley HallRachel Abbott]]===
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Vassilia Caroline Baird, known We know there's something very strange going on as soon as we join the story: we begin by hearing how it's going to all as V, is deadend and that someone must die. Jack sits in his cell refusing to talk to But that's just a hint: for the lawyer tasked time being we're with his defencetwo police persons. Starting at Stephanie's the murderous finalesergeant and she has Jason, Hall skillfully weaves together the stories of his key playersprobationer with her in the squad car, but Stephanie doesn't like where they're heading. The house is stunning, in but the last time she was here it was because there was a tale dead body at the bottom of love spanning decades and states, marriages and tragediesthe stairs to the pool. By This time there's been a 999 call with a woman screaming for help: the time omens are not good and when they enter the truth is revealedhouse they find two tangled, V will be blood-soaked bodies in the bed. They both look dead , but who else will lose their life? one of them moves - it's Evie Clark and she confesses to killing her partner. [[And So Many Doors It Begins by Oakley HallRachel Abbott|Full Review]]
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===[[The Fraternity of the EstrangedDrop: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908 A Slough House Novella by Brian AndersonMick Herron]]===
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Originally passed in 1885, the law that had made homosexual relations When you've done a crime remained in place job for 82 years. But during this any length of time, restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and 1908the memory, three books on the nature instincts of homosexuality appearedit stay with you and they're impossible to forget. They were written by two homosexual men It was the same with Solomon Dortmund, a retired spy: Edward Carpenter when he watches a woman making a drop he knows exactly what he's seeing and he passes this on John Addington SymondsBatchelor, as well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellisman charged with looking after the retired spooks. Exploring the margins Bachelor has problems of society and studying homosexuality was common on the European Continent, but barely talked about in the UK, so his own: the publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing closest he comes to a home is the scientific understanding back seat of homosexuality, his car and beginning he's run out of people whose sofas he can commandeer for the night. The best he can do with Solomon's problem is to pass it on the struggle for recognition someone else and equality, leading to hope that they'll deal with it/solve the milestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in 1967problem/quietly forget about it. [[The Fraternity of the EstrangedDrop: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908 A Slough House Novella by Brian AndersonMick Herron|Full Review]]
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===[[Cookin' The Books Kingdom of the Blind (Tish Tarragon MysteryChief Inspector Gamache) by Amy Patricia MeadeLouise Penny]]===
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Tish Tarragon is working towards opening her literary cafe, Cookin' The Books, It came as something of a surprise when Armand Gamache was named as liquidator in the opportunity to cater for the Library fundraiser comes her wayestate of a woman he'd never met. It's Another villager from Three Pines is also a bit of a poisoned chaliceliquidator, in more ways than one, as but the head of the library committee, Binnie Broderick third is difficulta stranger to them both. In fact, The mystery deepens when the will is read: given that the deceased was a cleaner it seems unlikely that she would have had the millions which she's poisoned bequests at the meal Tish has catered, there's no shortage of suspectsher disposal. Then a body is found. ItThat's not just that she feels herself to be superior (sheGamache's a Darlingtononly problem though: one of his protégées, Amelia Choquet, you see)has been expelled from the police academy for drug dealing, but that she actively goes out of her way and the enquiry into the incident which led to make life difficult for anyone she encounters. The town might be heaving a collective sigh his suspension as the head of relief (except not the Sûreté in front of Quebec is dragging on and the sheriff, obviously) but Tish outcome is worried that the fact that Binnie died face down in a meal she'd prepared might mean that people will not be all that keen to come to her cafe once it's openedlooking increasingly ominous. [[Cookin' The Books Kingdom of the Blind (Tish Tarragon MysteryChief Inspector Gamache) by Amy Patricia MeadeLouise Penny|Full Review]]
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===[[The Knitter's Dictionary: Knitting Know-How from A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) to Z by Catriona McPhersonKate Atherley]]===
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Dandy Gilver and family had made the arduous journey to Wester RossI've been knitting for well over sixty years, but Dandy had mixed feelings even when they arrivedfollowing patterns of varying complexity with success. They were there to meet I've knit Aran sweaters, socks by the family of Mallory, her son Donalddozen and I's fianceem currently knitting blankets for a charity to sell. It wasnThere hasn't that Dandy thought Donald been an occasion when I've been stuck and people have often come to be rather ''youngme'' at twenty three to be contemplating matrimony, but that Mallory was rather for help when ''they'oldve'' for him at thirtybeen stuck. There was also Would a niggling worry because Donald wasnknitter't the sharpest pin in the cushion. s dictionary really be of any help to me? All the doubts had faded into insignificance though when they arrived at Applecross: they might have come to celebrate the fiftieth birthday I was surprised by just how much I got out of Lady Lavinia, Mallory's mother, but it soon became obvious that Donald was smitten by the mother rather than the daughter. Dandy and Hugh were considering whether or not they should try to put an end to the engagement when the news arrived that Lady Lavinia had been found dead. [[The Knitter's Dictionary: Knitting Know-How from A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) to Z by Catriona McPhersonKate Atherley|Full Review]]
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===[[Empire of Sand Be Your Higher Self by Tasha SuriSamesh Ramjattan]]===
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Mehr is There are a girl trapped between two cultures. Her father comes from lot of self-help books about: it's one of the ruling classes most thriving sections of the empire average bookshop, but her motherit's people were outcastsnot always easy to find the book you need. Samesh Ramjattan has addressed this problem in ''Be Your Higher Self'', Amrithi nomads who worshipped a book which allows us all to make sense of our place in the spirits world, as most of the sandsus only glimpse our true potential and few people ever achieve it. Caught one night performing these forbidden rites Even with hard work and dedication, Mehr is brought obstacles present themselves and it's difficult to understand why or how they can be overcome. Ramjattan offers us a guide to the attention spirit world, the chakras, karma and reincarnation as well as information about the age of Aquarius and the Emperorego. It's most feared mystics, who force her into their service by way of an arranged marriage. a slim book - just 128 pages - so can it provide us with the answers we seek? [[Empire of Sand Be Your Higher Self by Tasha SuriSamesh Ramjattan|Full Review]]
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===[[Alternative Medicine Black Light by Laura Solomon]]===
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Laura Solomon's publisher describes Jim is a university student and, as the short stories in ''Alternative Medicinesaying goes, he hasn't got his troubles to seek. His father committed suicide when he was young and somehow he' s never really managed to connect with his step-father. His younger brother would be kindly described as having learning difficulties: if you were being honest you'd just say that he was very difficult, but Jim does his best with and for him. Jim'black comedy s in love with a twist woman, but she finds him repulsive and you can understand why: the looks, the attitude, the (lack of surrealism'') conversational ability and the clothing all leave a lot to be desired. I'm rather glad Despite all that I didn't see this until s he''after'' I'd finished reading as I'm s not normally a fan of either, but I've come about to sit back and allow his life to two conclusions about the bookdrift: what the publisher says is correct - and I really enjoyed it. The comedy is not he's actually writing ''tootwo'' black and the surrealism is gentle novels and perhaps best described as a twist or flick of reality when you were least expecting it. Your comfort zones are going he reads excerpts from these to be invaded his friends in the nicest possible waypub. [[Alternative Medicine Black Light by Laura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[The Count of 9 Redemptor Domus by Erle Stanley GardnerGamelyn Chase]]===
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''The Count of 9'' is a hardboiled detective story written A young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the scenic North Wales coast, sent far from his family in the 1950sFar East. It revolves around As the boy travels to the school, a family tragedy causes the detective duo boy to arrive at the school a vulnerable orphan, with an uncertain future. Plunged into a school full of Donald Lam danger and Bertha Cool betrayal, the boy is seen as they a trophy by friends and enemies alike. With them locked into their scheming and plotting, it comes to the boy to attempt to solve clean up the theft pit of priceless Bornean artefacts. However, their case quickly turns into something darker - an impossible murderfilth that the school has become. [[The Count of 9 Redemptor Domus by Erle Stanley GardnerGamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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Zoe believes On my travels around the world, I have a tendency to end up in adding life to years any bookshop that is selling English-language books, and while I buy as well many second-hand escapist tales as years to life. Her world, like her namethe next person, is bursting with life and colour. She what I'm really looking for is the sort of girl who would sing a rainbow if she could. Tristan (or 'local'Tree'' as she calls him) is – the cookbook maybe, the maps definitely, but above all: the oppositefolk tales. Fresh out of hospital following a prolonged stay in a psychiatric unit If I ever get to Burma, I won't need to hunt, he sees a world as a grey placeI can read before I go. [[Every Colour of You The Long Path To Wisdom by Amelia MandevilleJan-Philipp Sendker|Full Review]]
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Bob Skinner left Liam isn't ''quite'' the police service youngest in Scotland when it was amalgamated into one unit. He didna large family: he doesn't believe in it then have the distinction of being the baby anymore and he doesn't now have the ''heft'' of his older brothers and many serving officers would agree with himsisters. He might be retired but he's hardly idle: he's contracted to spend rather like one day of the pebbles on a week working for a media group, large shingle beach: part of the mass but usually gives more. His family - six children now - is important to himeasily overlooked as an individual. There's the occasional private commission, although he stops short of calling himself a private investigator, but So when he's just been presented starts having problems with a problem which it's difficult to refusehis sight no one really takes any notice. ItHe doesn's not the problem thatt want to bother his mother as she's heavily involved in the difficulty Luminal Festival and when he asked his elder step- itsister, Anna, if she's the person who is asking ll take him for helpan eye test, she puts him off. Sir James Proud was SkinnerIn fairness she's predecessor as Chief Constable got important exams and heLiam's convinced that it's been approached by just a blogger who feels that he has evidence that Proud was involved case of getting spectacles, but Liam's eyes are changing in a famous murder for which a man was convicted. He subsequently committed suicide whilst in prison - and went to his death denying that he was guiltyrather strange way. [[Cold Case Pebble (Bob SkinnerStrong Winds series) by Quintin JardineJulia Jones|Full Review]]
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===[[Be Your Higher Self So Many Doors by Samesh RamjattanOakley Hall]]===
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There are a lot of self-help books about: it's one of the most thriving sections of the average bookshopVassilia Caroline Baird, but it's not always easy known to find the book you needall as V, is dead. Samesh Ramjattan has addressed this problem Jack sits in ''Be Your Higher Self'', a book which allows us all his cell refusing to talk to make sense of our place in the world, as most of us only glimpse our true potential and few people ever achieve it. Even lawyer tasked with hard work and dedication, obstacles present themselves and it's difficult to understand why or how they can be overcomehis defence. Ramjattan offers us a guide to Starting at the spirit worldmurderous finale, Hall skillfully weaves together the chakrasstories of his key players, karma in a tale of love spanning decades and reincarnation as well as information about the age of Aquarius states, marriages and tragedies. By the ego. It's a slim book - just 128 pages - so can it provide us with time the answers we seektruth is revealed, V will be dead but who else will lose their life? [[Be Your Higher Self So Many Doors by Samesh RamjattanOakley Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[Her Final Confession (Detective Josie Quinn Book 4) The Fraternity of the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908 by Lisa ReganBrian Anderson]]===
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Detective Josie Quinn is no longer Chief of Police, but Originally passed in many ways that's something of a relief1885, although it does mean that she doesn't quite have the autonomy law that she hadmade homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years. It also means that But during this time, restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and 1908, three books on the other detectives have a habit nature of calling her 'boss'homosexuality appeared. It's They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, as well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the margins of society and studying homosexuality was common on the autonomy bit that strikes home though when she has to watch a fellow officer being arrested for a cold-blooded murderEuropean Continent, but what other conclusion can you come to when barely talked about in the officer goes missingUK, her vehicle and phone are off so the radar and there's the body publications of a young man in her driveway? Josie Quinn can't believe that Gretchen - these men were hugely significant – contributing to the woman she brought onto the Denton police force - could be guilty scientific understanding of such a crimehomosexuality, but she and Noah Fraley are not going to have much time to prove that Gretchen is innocentbeginning the struggle for recognition and equality, and Gretchen doesn't seem inclined leading to help themthe milestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in 1967. [[Her Final Confession (Detective Josie Quinn Book 4) The Fraternity of the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908 by Lisa ReganBrian Anderson|Full Review]]
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===[[Cookin' The Woods Murder Books (Tish Tarragon Mystery) by Roy LewisAmy Patricia Meade]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]
[[image:3Tish Tarragon is working towards opening her literary cafe, Cookin' The Books, when the opportunity to cater for the Library fundraiser comes her way. It's a bit of a poisoned chalice, in more ways than one, as the head of the library committee, Binnie Broderick is difficult. In fact, when she's poisoned at the meal Tish has catered, there's no shortage of suspects. It's not just that she feels herself to be superior (she's a Darlington, you see), but that she actively goes out of her way to make life difficult for anyone she encounters.5star The town might be heaving a collective sigh of relief (except not in front of the sheriff, obviously) but Tish is worried that the fact that Binnie died face down in a meal she'd prepared might mean that people will not be all that keen to come to her cafe once it's opened.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeCookin' The Books (Tish Tarragon Mystery) by Amy Patricia Meade|CrimeFull Review]]
Jenny Carson was just nine years old when she was murdered whilst taking a shortcut through Kenton Woods. Her father blamed lawyer Charles Lendon for her death - not that he thought he was physically responsible, but because Lendon had refused to allow the local children to use his driveway as a shortcut to school, forcing them to cut through the woods if they were late. Lendon wasn't a popular man - he would say that lawyers never are - partly because of his attitudes, but his incessant womanising had made him a lot of enemies. When Lendon was murdered a couple of months after Jenny's death, there was no shortage of suspects. [[The Woods Murder by Roy Lewis|Full Review]]<!-- Betty Rowlands Catriona McPherson -->
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===[[Murder at the Manor Hotel A Step So Grave (Melissa Craig 4Dandy Gilver) by Betty RowlandsCatriona McPherson]]===
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Melissa Craig should have been getting on with writing Dandy Gilver and family had made the arduous journey to Wester Ross, but Dandy had mixed feelings even when they arrived. They were there to meet the family of Mallory, her latest mystery novel but sheson Donald'd been sidetracked into working on the script for a pantomimes fiancee. It wasn't a traditional panto, but a spoof for the birthday party of a local millionaire, that Dandy thought Donald to be held on Halloween. Itrather ''young''s got all the hallmarks of a mystery at twenty three to be contemplating matrimony, but that Mallory was rather ''andold'' a pantomime and it looks as though cast and audience are all in for him at thirty. There was also a good time with niggling worry because Donald wasn't the rehearsals being held sharpest pin in a luxury hotelthe cushion. Well, All the doubts had faded into insignificance though when they arrived at Applecross: they were until one member might have come to celebrate the fiftieth birthday of Lady Lavinia, Mallory's mother, but it soon became obvious that Donald was smitten by the cast turns up dead in the cellar at mother rather than the bottom of a steep flight of stairsdaughter. What was he doing there Dandy and why is Hugh were considering whether or not they should try to put an end to the hotel manager acting so strangely? engagement when the news arrived that Lady Lavinia had been found dead. [[Murder at the Manor Hotel A Step So Grave (Melissa Craig 4Dandy Gilver) by Betty RowlandsCatriona McPherson|Full Review]]
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===[[Salvation Empire of Sand by Peter F HamiltonTasha Suri]]===
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Apparently the term ''space opera'' was coined in 1941 as Mehr is a pejorativegirl trapped between two cultures. It was borrowed not Her father comes from the high-brow musical art formruling classes of the empire but her mother's people were outcasts, but from Amrithi nomads who worshipped the common or garden 'soap opera'. It related to a particular kind spirits of science fiction which the coiner (sands. Caught one Wilson Tucker) described as a ''hackynight performing these forbidden rites, grinding, stinking, outworn, spaceship yarn''. It would be fifty years later before the term started Mehr is brought to be re-appropriated to cover – if still the same themes attention of distant futuresthe Emperor's most feared mystics, military conflict, heroism and a simplistic set who force her into their service by way of values – more literary, more expansive works. The term is now taken as complimentan arranged marriage. [[Salvation Empire of Sand by Peter F HamiltonTasha Suri|Full Review]]
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